R Observatory: Metrics for wdiexplorer version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wdiexplorer

0.1.2

Explore World Development Indicators Data

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Oluwayomi AkinfenwaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a workflow for exploring World Development Indicators (WDI) country-level panel data. It downloads WDI data using the 'WDI' package and computes diagnostic indices that capture the temporal behaviour of the data by incorporating the grouping structure of the data. The set of diagnostic indices implemented includes variation features, trend and shape features, and sequential temporal features. This method is described in Akinfenwa, Cahill, and Hurley (2025) "'wdiexplorer': An R package Designed for Exploratory Analysis of World Development Indicators (WDI) Data" doi:10.48550/arXiv.2511.07027. We adapt the clustering diagnostics and visualisation methodology described in Rousseeuw (1987) doi:10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7 and selected time series features from Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2021) "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" https://otexts.com/fpp3/.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("wdiexplorer", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("Oluwayomi-Olaitan/wdiexplorer")

Development version from Oluwayomi-Olaitan/wdiexplorer. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-wdiexplorer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-wdiexplorer

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-wdiexplorer

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-05
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-23
OK13 OK2026-07-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-19
OK13 OK2026-07-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-07-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-30
OK13 OK2026-06-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-04
OK11 OK2026-04-27
ERROR10 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-26
OK10 OK2026-04-25
NOTE8 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-24
ERROR7 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
NOTE6 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 625 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,564 · ~6/day · ~190/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

91090 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on52 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

oluwayomi-olaitan/wdiexplorer ↗Account: Oluwayomi-Olaitan

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

22Commits

2Commit identities

22 commits · Last activity 2026-04-20 · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/oluwayomi-olaitan/wdiexplorer on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-20

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wdiexplorer adds 89 packages (47 with compiled code, 86 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

dplyr tidyr tidyselect tibble tsibble rlang WDIclusterfabletools feasts forcats ggplot2 ggiraph ggtext ggdist scales patchwork ggnewscale

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown naniar testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Oluwayomi Akinfenwa

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2026)

Niamh Cahill

Author, Thesis advisor

Catherine Hurley

Author, Thesis advisor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
record
2026-04-21 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 90 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wdiexplorer")

Format

Akinfenwa, O., Cahill, N., & Hurley, C. (2026). wdiexplorer: Explore World Development Indicators Data (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wdiexplorer

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wdiexplorer version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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